How are the concepts related to ecological leisure in a bonsai garden defined?
The concept of "ecology" originally emerged from the study of individual organisms. With the development of the times, it is now used to refer to the living state of organisms, and ecology gradually came into being. At present, ecology has penetrated into various fields. People from different disciplinary fields and cultural backgrounds have different research directions and definitions of "ecology," but what remains constant is respect for and protection of nature. The construction of ecological civilization proposed at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has good significance and effect for China's ecological development, and also creates a good production and living environment for the people, thereby changing people's production and lifestyle.
Leisure
Leisure is a relatively free life freed from the external pressures of the cultural environment and the material environment. It enables individuals to act in ways they love and instinctively feel are valuable, driven by inner love, and provides a foundation for belief. A scientific and civilized way of leisure can effectively promote the regulation of intelligence and physical ability and the exercise of physiological and psychological functions.
The role of leisure
The role of leisure can be divided into two aspects: eliminating physical fatigue and obtaining spiritual comfort. It is a state of life and way of behavior in which people, after completing socially necessary labor, are in a state of continuously satisfying people's many-sided needs. Through the behaviors, thinking, and emotions shared by human groups, it creates a cultural atmosphere, transmits cultural information, and constructs cultural imagery, thereby achieving the comprehensive and complete development of the individual's body, mind, and will. Generally speaking, leisure is closely related to and interacts with the politics, economy, culture, and morality of the time.
The degree of leisure
In terms of the degree of leisure, leisure can be divided into casual leisure and serious leisure.
Casual leisure: From a general perspective, casual leisure refers to activities that are immediate, instant, quick, brief, and make one feel comfortable inside. Such activities generally require only slight training or even no training at all to enjoy participating in, so this type of leisure generally belongs to passive participation.
Serious leisure:This type of leisure refers to people regularly or systematically and attentively participating in a certain activity, devoting a great deal of thought to it, treating it like their own career, and being able to obtain or demonstrate their own unique knowledge, skills, or experience through this process of participation. Participants feel pleasure during this process of participation, so this type of leisure generally belongs to active participation.
Ecological leisure
Ecological leisure is an advanced leisure concept. Through the ecological behavioral norms, ecological ways of thinking, the emotion of the unity of heaven and humanity, and the ethics of caring for life that are unique to human groups, it creates an ecological cultural imagery, and through protecting the ecological environment, it achieves the comprehensive development of the individual's body, mind, and moral character. In terms of the level of leisure, it is a high-level form of leisure that advocates contact with nature and requires protecting the ecological environment while satisfying people's leisure needs.
Ecological leisure can be further divided into two aspects:First, developing ecological leisure into sustainable leisure; second, ecological leisure needs to be established on the basis of protecting the environment and promoting the healthy development of ecology. It is the product of combining ecological material and spiritual civilization, satisfying people's urgent needs for ecological leisure activities and ecological leisure environments without harming the needs of future generations. At the same time, it forms a resource-conserving lifestyle and way of practice, reflecting people's positive attitude toward life, among which the most important thing is to achieve the coordinated development of humanity and nature. It is necessary to handle well the interrelationships among people, nature, and ecology, and advocate the harmonious coexistence of people, nature, and society. From people's relentless taking to the mutual giving between people and ecology, reducing the excessive consumption of the ecological environment, this green and civilized way of leisure reflects the awakening of people's awareness of ecological protection, rather than building people's own happiness on the suffering of the ecological environment. It plays an important role in improving people's values in life, so in this development process ecological leisure has played an important role, a brand-new ecological experience and way of leisure, expressing people's pursuit of returning to nature.